ERIC Number: EJ1282139
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 6
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Educating through Art, Ecology, and Ecojustice: A Rain Barrel Project
Art Education, v74 n1 p40-45 2021
This article shares a curriculum developed by preservice art teachers to encourage 9th-grade art education students to learn and create together, making decorative rain barrels to help their community's future and discover how artmaking can help provide sustainable ways to address ecological challenges related to their local environment. A partnership between a university, neighboring junior high, and a local nature center was forged to implement an art project to create awareness and education through ecojustice education about the impact of local stormwater. Similar to social justice education, the partners worked together to help students focus on justice related to the natural environment, or ecojustice (Martusewicz et al., 2011). Through an ecojustice lens, the teachers aimed to guide students from a feeling of disconnection or lack of empathy for their local environment and help them to connect, care, and create art to impact the environment in a positive way (Anderson & Suominen Guyas, 2012).
Descriptors: Art Education, Ecology, Social Justice, Conservation (Environment), Water, High School Students, Preservice Teachers, Community Involvement
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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